Did you ever want to sync your Majordomo mailing list with another address database? Or make it easy for users to unsubscribe using a web interface? Then you will have noticed that Majordomo only offers you a mail interface or an admin tool that you have install on your mailserver. So what if you don’t [...]

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I have several PCs mounting its home directory as well as other data directories from a NFS server. Until now I was using good (?) old NFSv3. Today I tried a switch to NFSv4 in order to decrease locking the problems Firefox has with its sqlite databases being on a NFS filesystem. Quick notes: if [...]

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Firefox 3.6 will be released today, Januar 21st. Unfortunately the XForms extension for this version is not yet ready. We’re planning an official release for Firefox 3.6 within this quarter, see bug 539184 for details. The nightly builds for 3.6 are currently broken as well, I hope to get this fixed until the end of [...]

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Yeah, documentation in an unstable wiki is great. I wonder if MDC uses HTTPS only to make it even slower …

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Damit alle, die kein KDE4 benutzen (oder sich noch nicht von Ubuntu trennen können), dennoch in Genuss des Mensa-Speiseplans bekommen, habe ich die RSS-Feeds aktualisiert (die gab es schon länger, aber eher so als Service unter Freunden): http://philipp.wagner.name/cafeteriamenu/ Der Quellcode ist ebenfalls im Mercurial Repository verfügbar (nein, Code zum Parsen von HTML-Seiten ist nicht schön). [...]

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The semester starts again and I took the chance to get back to the cafeteria plasmoid and fix some old issues. Changes include: Fix the cmake build files to work with newer KDE versions. Add caching and network status detection to the data engine. The menu for the next week is cached if you are [...]

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Today I had to copy several LVM partitions to another machine. The first tools I thought of were dd and netcat (nc), the swiss army knife for every sysadmin. But the following two lines didn’t make me happy: source$ ssh root@192.168.66.2 — nc -l 3333 \| dd of=/dev/VolGroupData/data1 & source$ dd if=/dev/VolGroupData/data1 | nc 192.168.66.2 [...]

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I recently got a Philips Speechmike device. It seems Philips has a Linux SDK for it, but I was unable to obtain it. I thought it wouldn’t be impossible to write a Linux driver for those couple buttons, so I gave it a try. First the good things: The speaker and microphone work perfectly out-of-the-box [...]

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I have been using Gallery2 for my private picture collection for quite some time. It’s a great piece of software that shows how to write PHP code. Unfortunately, all the abstraction layers make it quite slow without additional help. I did three things to speed things up a bit: Use lighttpd (doesn’t give that much [...]

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If you’re working in a company or go to university or college, that’s probably close to the most important question of the day. Wouldn’t it be great to have that information right on your desktop? While I was playing around with KDE4, I thought it would be great to have a Plasmoid (like a Dashboard [...]

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